Yesterday I came into Hamble Point Marina exactly 11 weeks after setting off to attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo round Britain, at 15. Here is my trip in numbers: 34 knots strongest wind (and yes, the Giga Turbines survived it!) 343 hours sailing 1,740 miles 39 days at sea 14 nights …
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As you can see below, I had a very special visit from Ellen MacArthur today. Ellen has been my idol not just for sailing but for how I want to lead my life, ever since I read her books at the age of 12, about her amazing adventures. So, when Ellen came into Shepards Marina …
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We left Portland Marina at 2am, another early start – but I’m getting used to this now! I wanted to ensure we got through the Hurst Narrows safely with the tide. After the early start, I quite fancied one of these for breakfast! Expedition Foods supplied me with a number of these ration packs, and …
Another early start! We left Dartmouth at 5am today, headed for Portland. The seas approaching Portland Bill were quite confused, we had a fairly constant F5 from the west all the way. I decided to take the inner channel of Portland race as this cut a considerable amount of miles from my passage. This worked …
After leaving Plymouth yesterday, here we are in Dartmouth. Not where we had intended to be, but due to the pretty tough F6+ conditions around Start Point, on the nose, it was the safest option for both Alchemy and me. This morning I have been plotting our course for the next leg, to Portland. I …
You might have seen in some of my previous posts I have mentioned the array of marine wildlife that I have seen, in particular Dolphins which have followed the boat on every leg since Ardglass, NI! This clip was from our passage to Falmouth the other day where we saw both Dolphins and a Pilot …
Yesterday I came into Queen Anne’s Battery after leaving Falmouth Marina early that morning for what turned out to be a pretty fast trip with a following breeze and swell. We have had a great few days heading along the South Coast. On Monday morning we left Newlyn Harbour and had just enough wind to …
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Land’s End This evening I came into Newlyn Harbour 13.5 hours after leaving Padstow. It turned out to be a pretty difficult passage because we had a pretty lousy sea state down the North Cornish coast and then some of the biggest overfalls yet on the North side of Land’s end. It wasn’t all bad …
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Yesterday afternoon I came into @Padstow Harbour 3 days after leaving Pwllheli, North Wales. It was the most intense few days of my life. At sunrise on Monday morning I left Pwllheli headed across Cardigan Bay for Fishguard where I picked up a mooring buoy for the night, 12 hours after setting of from Pwllheli. …